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So a Solomon's choice though one part of the baby is much smaller.
It's unfortunate for me that I had many, many bookmarks and I used
Scrapbook and doing this will loose all of those, most probably.
Especially Scrapbook as FF55 doesn't support it. The ESR release
does though. I know that I made the situation very complex by
keeping apps and config files for years but being at the level I am
I never had any difficulties until the last update (not distro
upgrade). Be that as it may I obviously have to take that path (no
pun intended-NOT) and muddle through. I used to just copy my entire
home directory over to a new install and all my important files
would be there. Thunderbird would launc with all of my emails and
the files ordered the same. Loosing that would be, well, I can't
express that. In any case, I think that I'll use CCC as I have in
the past and set the flag for no errors. It will copy everything,
junk and all and then I can sift thru the clone instead of trying to
track each error with rsync as they occur, Especially since I am
vague on that and I'm sorry Mark, that I am that dense. And I mean
that too. I would need someone sith me that could pull off the rsync
that is more knowledgeable than I on the command line. Old dog, old
tricks.<br>
So I'll post the results of the cloning, should be fine as it has
never failed yet. Then the rest is just a slog. But I have 4 months
of down time to figure it out! Whoopie for me!!<br>
PS-Mark, the usb drive will not boot into the "try without
installing" mode. I can only run a check disc, which shows no
errors. Weird that.<br>
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Many thanks! I'll be in touch<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/21/2018 03:34 PM, Ted Pomeroy
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">NMGLugers,
After a reinstall avoid restoring the old settings/config
files for your browser and some other applications. Especially
if shifting the Desktop environment. Changes in the
application and your system and kernel make for problems
reading the old files. You can sort through to find a set of
bookmarks as a json file and try to copy that to your home
directory and then, in Firefox try and Import. If FF balks the
file may be incompatible. Re-install is a time to review your
settings and preferences and update the User-Mind, ie, make
new choices or confirm the old ones. See what you think. Thank
you, Ted P.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Mark
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Brian, please do what I told you to do in private email
before you<br>
continue this long sequence on the list.<br>
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Examine the important directories in your backup to see that
they are<br>
good. If so then you're done.<br>
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Otherwise, after rebooting:<br>
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You should fsck the external drive filesystem so that it
will mount in<br>
read/write mode.<br>
<br>
You can remove directories like ~/.mozilla.backup and other
volatile<br>
stuff before you back up.<br>
<br>
Then fix the path to /dev/sd?1 and run the snapshot script.
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